REDUCED: Gino Severini: The Dance 1909-1916, hardcover book

The Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice is magical! This volume, as described on amazon, is the catalogue of the exhibition at the Guggenheim Collection in Venice devoted to a 20th-century avant garde master Severini on one of his favorite subjects: the dance. Between 1910 and 1915 Gino Severini was a central figure of Italian Futurism, the movement that celebrated the modern by giving expression to contemporary theories about sensory perception of the new urban and industrial environments. As a resident of Paris, Severini served as an intermediary between Futurists in Italy and the Parisian avant-garde, especially his friends among the Cubist painters. Above all other art movements, the dance excited Severini's imagination as a painter during his Futurist period. The dancing figure was for him the icon of modernity, a metaphor of dynamism, and the door of perception through which he invited viewers to enter a world built on rhythm observed with intense involvement.The volume charts a pictorial journey featuring over fifty paintings with extensive color and black/white prints and well-researched analysis. This hardcover edition still has its original dust jacket and plastic cover, in like-new condition. Over 240 pages and approx dimensions 12" x 9.5" x 1".